Trevor Price
ASIN: B00KO2XSMG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 33
This essay looks at the oft forgotten role that common land has within the sustainability debate. Acting as ‘green lungs’ for urbanites, commons are seen perhaps as relics from our past, famously used by Hardin (1968), to convey ideas of contemporary tragic unsustainability. Here lies two detailed case studies of well- and ill-managed commons which serve to highlight the potential benefits, but also the practical realities, that our commons present. Recommendations leave the reader with views on how to improve our commons, thus improving these mainly neglected reservoirs of environmental sustainability, peace and tranquility.